Hi and welcome once again to History Dweaves. I am Tim. Welcome to the show when we take a

lighthearted look at the dark side of history. And today we've got a kind of a tragic story today.

I'm not sure how funny this is going to be, but it's an interesting story. The title of our podcast is

The Final Bell, the Our Lady of Angels School Fire. So dramatic, the final bell. You like that?

Look at you. Remember in school and you'd always wait for that final bell so you get out at the end of the day?

Oh, absolutely. I didn't wait for this shit. No, but this occurred right before

the final bell. This is a story about a terrible, terrible fire, school fire that occurred

at the R. Lady of Angels Elementary School in the city of Chicago back in December of 1958, end up killing 92 students and three nuns.

So it's kind of a very tragic story.

But we'll get into all of that, talk about the story and how it all occurred.

But before we do, let me introduce our distinguished panel. I am, as always,

pleased to be joined by the very lovely and talented, the Queen of Mean, the Empress of Evil,

the Mistress of the Maccob, Satan's Dirty Little Secret, Bill Poppin, Pino's Lovin, Brandy. How are you today,

Brandy? I'm all right, Timmy. How are you doing? Fine. Are you excited about this story? No, I'm not as excited about this story as you would think. It's horrible. It's so tragic. It is a tragic story, but it's interesting, don't you think? It is still tragic. Yeah, interesting but tragic. Sounds like, kind of like my sex life.

I don't, yeah, I guess.

Yeah.

Not interesting, though.

Well, that's interesting to me.

Well, I hope so.

We are also joined by the very distinguished and honorable, really the moral compass of our podcast,

the most dangerous man in

podcasting today, the Reverend Colonel Charles Beauregard Hawke Waters III, affectionately known

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